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Arthur Golden Quotes

Arthur Golden quotes

American Writer December 6, 1956

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It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream"I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up"Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-"Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have... Arthur Golden
And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give. Arthur Golden
Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day. Arthur Golden
If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle Arthur Golden
What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give. Arthur Golden
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable? Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden quote: "Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand,..."
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar. Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden quote: "I've lived my life again just telling it to you."
I've lived my life again just telling it to you. Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden quote: "Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it..."
Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. Arthur Golden
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing. Arthur Golden
You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind. Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden quote: "Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away. Arthur Golden
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden quote: "I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that..."
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. Arthur Golden
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined. Arthur Golden

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